Kilroy I recommend that you read
The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke.
One of the best books I've read by the (living) science fiction legend combining history, science, technology, vision etc...
Thanks for the welcome comment a while back by the way.
Also another interesting book I read a not too long ago is
Weird History 101 offering a different perspective on many important historical events, it will make you laugh ( probably cynically) many times over.
Another book I really liked, but unfortunately I lost without having finished it, is
Heimskringla:The Lives of the Norse Kings by Snorre Sturlason. This is probably my all-time favorite because there you have a whole recorded history from the mythical Odin to the historically proven late kings of Norway and very cold hard details on the brutality of those days. Really makes you realize how our view of life is vastly different from that in Snorri's days...
Edited by vulkan02 - 01-Aug-2007 at 00:06